Priya Hildebrand (Winifred Edwards) is a sophomore Theatre (performance) major. She is thrilled to make her LSU Mainstage debut in The Courtship of Winifred Edwards. She previously appeared in Swine Palace’s People, Places & Things, LSU Lab Show Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, and Geaux Film Sink or Swim. Other credits include Pipeline, The Ash Girl, and Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. 

Treazure Jackson (Ottilie Edwards) is a junior Theatre (performance) major. This is her debut to both LSU theatre and Mainstage! Previous credits include LSU’s Musical Theatre Club The Nightmare Before Christmas, Cabaret 2024, Singeaux 24’-25’, and High School Musical On Stage! 

Layla Brown Collado (Eleanora) is a third-year Theatre Performance major. Layla was last seen on the Swine Palace stage for her debut in Roleplay. As Layla continues to indulge in LSU Theatre, the more grateful she has become of the community she has to support her. Layla would like to give a big thank you to the director, Gleason Bauer, for helping color LSU's stage with this production using their kind words, creativity, and dedication. 

Hunter Sparacino (Granville) is a junior Theatre major with a concentration in performance. Previous credits include LSU Theatre’s Lab Season show Dead City. Hunter is currently the President of the University Theatre Alliance (UTA) and is excited to continue growing LSU’s theatre community through the club.

DJ Flood (Georgia) is a junior Film & Television major. Previous credits include Roleplay (LSU Mainstage), The R + J Project (LSU Lab), The Unseen Hand (Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (LSMSA). DJ is also Treasurer of Improv LSU and Publicity and Outreach Chair for the University Theatre Alliance. Love you Mom, Dad, and Ainsley!

Ricardo Mendoza (Anthony) is a senior Theatre Performance major and a native Puerto Rican. This marks Ricardo's sixth time on the LSU stage. Previous credits include Swine Palace's Red Velvet, LSU Mainstage Marburg, LSU Mainstage Ms. Holmes. and Ms. Watson- Apt. 2B, Lab show All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten,  and ImprovLSU's God Gun! 

Hunter Nastasi (Clarence) is a senior double-majoring in Theatre (Arts Administration) and General Business. Previous credits include LSU Theatre Mainstage's Roleplay, LSU's Musical Theatre Club's productions of Singeaux and The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals, and LSU Theatre Lab's Rosita y Conchita. He was the Assistant Board Chair and Secretary of LSU's Musical Theatre Club last year and currently serves as the Secretary of the University Theatre Alliance. He would like to thank his friends and family for all their love and support!

John “Jojo” Dunn (Victor Woods) is a senior Theatre Performance major. Previous credits include productions with City Park Players including Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and productions with The Christ School Theatre in Arden NC (Othello). Jojo wishes to be a prominent voice actor and participates in online dubs as much as he can in his spare time.

Jillian Boyles (Charlotte Woods) is a junior Theatre (performance) major and an Entrepreneurship minor. This is her second main stage production. Her previous credits include LSU’s Spring ‘25 main stage show Roleplay and LSU’s Lab Show Let Me Be: Grandma, Maama, and Me. 

Ben Franques (Reginald) is a senior Political Science major and Theatre minor. Previous credits include LSU SciArt’s Alice Wareham and The Fabulation of Time. He is also a member of LSU Improv.

Weston Bradley (Lawrence)

Kylee Broomfield_Harris

Kylee Broomfield-Harris (Assistant Director) is a junior Theatre (Arts Administration ) student. Credits include Swine Palace’s Marburg and ROE. She also directed the Musical Theatre Club High School Musical: On Stage! This summer, she also taught youth with disabilities theatre at a summer camp in Chicago.   

John Michael Eddy

John Eddy (Props Designer) is the Props Designer/Mentor for the LSU School of Theatre; he completed his undergraduate work at the University of Arizona and holds an MFA in Theater Production and Design from Temple University in Philadelphia. In addition to his prop work and scenic designs, he serves on the Board of Directors for Playmakers of Baton Rouge; Playmakers is a children’s educational theatre group who is proud to call the LSU Reilly Theater their home. www.johhmeddy.com

Kyla Kazuschyk

Kyla Kazuschyk - (Costume Designer) Associate Professor of Costume Technology at Louisiana State University (LSU), Kyla holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre from the University of Central Florida and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Costume Technology from Ohio University. She has created costumes for the Santa Fe Opera, Washington National Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, and Texas Shakespeare Festival. She currently teaches and manages the costume shop at LSU. Professional costume design credits include Operating Systems, Airline Highway, and The Mountaintop, at Louisiana’s Swine Palace Theatre; Kimberly Akimbo, Tender Atlas, and Witch at McNeese State University, and the world premiere of The Christmas Spider at Opera Louisiane. Kyla enjoys creating costumes for competitive dance troupes and uniforms for the dance teams of professional basketball teams the Orlando Magic and the Detroit Pistons. Passionate about the possibilities of devised theatre, she designed and created costumes for Savage/Love, a work of physical theatre performed at the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival, and Love and Information, a semi-devised piece performed at LSU. Her research on the rewarding chaos of devising was first published in the 2017 Theatre Symposium and is now available through Routledge Press in her book, Creating Costumes for Devised Theatre.

Ashley Landrieu

Ashley Landrieu (Intimacy Director) is an Intimacy Coordinator and Director working in film and theatre. Her screen credits include Scratch Across America, and her stage work includes A Streetcar Named Desire with the Tennessee Williams Theatre Company in New Orleans. Dedicated to fostering safe, respectful, and collaborative storytelling, Ashley is passionate about supporting artists and their process. A proud alumna, she is delighted to return to her alma mater. More at ashleylandrieu.com | IG: @ashley.landrieu

James L. Murphy

James L. Murphy (Lighting Designer) is an Associate Professor and Head of the M.F.A. Technology and Design programs as well as Production Manager and Technical Director for Swine Palace and the LSU School of Theatre. He teaches primarily in scenery engineering and construction as well as stage management. Design credits include Lighting Design for Swine Palace’s world premiere of Leigh Fondakowski’s Spill; Production Manager and Lighting Designer for the LSU Theatre production of Origin, performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2014; Set Designer for Swine Palace’s world premiere of Ping Chong’s and Vince Licata’s Cocktail, honored by inclusion at the 2011 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space; Set and Lighting Designer for the LSU Theatre production of Antigone presented at the 2010 Young Theatre Festival in Seoul, South Korea; and Lighting Designer for Swine Palace’s, The Heidi Chronicles, which toured to Shanghai and Beijing, China in 2007. 

T.M. Pride

T. M. Pride (Choreographer) is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist, choreographer, and educator based in South Florida. He is the Producing Artistic Director of Brévo Theatre and a member of Actors’ Equity and SDC. His work explores Black narratives through dance, text, and technology, with performances featured at the Adrienne Arsht Center, Downtown Urban Arts Festival, and Pompano Beach Jazz Festival. A 2023 Bailey Contemporary Arts Resident, Pride is known for blending softness, storytelling, and movement into transformative experiences.

Rocky Sansom

Rockford Sansom (Voice Coach) is an Associate Professor of Voice & Speech and the Swine Palace voice coach. As a coach, he has worked with actors Off-Broadway, Off West End, and in regional theatre, Fortune 500 executives, UN delegates, and members of congress. As an actor, he performed Off-Broadway, regionally, and in international and national Broadway tours. His textbook Voice Work is used worldwide. AEA. SAG-AFTRA. VASTA Lifetime Distinguished Member.

Sofia Silva

Sofia Silva (Stage Manager) is a Junior Theater (Performance) major at Louisiana State University. Over the summer she stage managed FIMUS (Festival Internacional de Musica de Campina Grande) in Campina Grande, Brazil. She was the ASM for Swine Palace's Red Velvet. She performed in the Dance and Physical Theatre Showcase 2024. She also assisted in props and design for the play People Places and Things, Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson – Apt. 2B. She is a member of the Physical Theater Club and Dance Ambassador at LSU.

Apollo Mark Weaver

Apollo Mark Weaver (Scenic Designer) has more than two decades of scenic design experience, working nationally for companies including Geva Theatre Center, Arizona Theatre Company, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, and Utah Shakespeare Festival. He has also designed sets for many local companies in Philadelphia, Chicago, and upstate New York, including InterAct, Azuka Theatre, the Mercury Theatre, Redhouse Arts Center, and Inis Nua Theatre Company. He has worked as a scenic artist, muralist, and theatre educator and holds an MFA from Temple University. At LSU, he serves as Assistant Professor of Scenic Design and has recently designed productions of Roe; People, Places, and Things; and Red Velvet for Swine Palace and Marburg for LSU Mainstage. He is a proud member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829. Please visit him on the web at apolloweaver.com.